{"id":1414,"date":"2019-05-30T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2019-05-30T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:32:45","slug":"should-you-take-medicine-against-hiv-if-you-have-a-new-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"Should You Take Medicine Against HIV If You Have a New Partner?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mantexting-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mantexting-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mantexting-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mantexting-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mantexting.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 1\/10 people with HIV do not know they have the infection, so just being &#8216;truthful&#8217; is not going to protect you from having unprotected sex with someone infected with HIV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most new cases of HIV are men transmitting the infection to an uninfected male partner, about 10% of cases are women acquiring the infection from a male partner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a medication regimen you can take before you have sex with an HIV partner, that should protect you from catching the disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two different regimen&#8217;s used, and they have been tested for use without protection. We still would never advise having unprotected sex with a new partner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The medication is not perfect protection against catching HIV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medication to protect against HIV is called &#8216;pre-exposure prophylaxis&#8217; and should be used if you have been deemed to be in a high risk relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask your personal physician if this medication is right for you, and how you can practice safer sex. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1\/10 people with HIV do not know they have the infection, so just being &#8216;truthful&#8217; is not going to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,199],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guys-guide-to-gyno","category-our-gyno-health","category-stds","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}